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There needs to be a complete overhaul of "how i got here, back/forward, where i want to go, things i want to read, things i want to flip between, things i want

by basch 8y ago

There needs to be a complete overhaul of "how i got here, back/forward, where i want to go, things i want to read, things i want to flip between, things i want cached so when i click they dont load, i want to purge the tab from my current workspace, i want to purge this site from the history." Navigation (forward/back), history, tabs, bookmarks et all are all trying to do various forms of the same thing, and their overall relationship to each other is fundamentally broken, because each individual component is too rigidly defined and isolated. I should be able to click between a couple buttons to see how tabs are 1) related to each other from a time/clicked/navigation history perspective 2) workspace perspective 3) topic perspective

PaulHoule 8y ago
Even in current browsers you can do pretty well closing tabs whenever you want and looking them up in history. The situation could be way better.
- basch 8y ago
  Except in chrome for example, where history clears after so many days, so you have to bookmark. Firefox had some experiment that merged a visual history with tabs, I didnt like the idea at all, but at least they were thinking about change.
- jordanpg 8y ago
  I agree with this. I've come to the conclusion that the bottom line is that I don't need more than a few tabs open, and that if I do, my attention is probably too fractured. Solution is to change my habits and be a little bit more deliberate with how I'm using the browser.
- tokyodude 8y ago
  I can't use history unless the browser searched by page content not just title
  - rhizome 8y ago
    Exactly. Trying to find something you saw last week? Just sort "by date and site" and scroll down to its page title! This kind of thing is why I leave tabs up.
pard68 8y ago
Can't think of the browser but there is a hobby browser designed for modal --vim-- usage that displays history as a tree similar to a file structure rather than as a flat back and forward. I wish I could remember the name of it... I do recall it was listed on qutebrowser's github page under similar projects but I can't look right now.

by basch 8y ago

PaulHoule 8y ago

Even in current browsers you can do pretty well closing tabs whenever you want and looking them up in history. The situation could be way better.

basch 8y ago
Except in chrome for example, where history clears after so many days, so you have to bookmark. Firefox had some experiment that merged a visual history with tabs, I didnt like the idea at all, but at least they were thinking about change.
jordanpg 8y ago
I agree with this. I've come to the conclusion that the bottom line is that I don't need more than a few tabs open, and that if I do, my attention is probably too fractured. Solution is to change my habits and be a little bit more deliberate with how I'm using the browser.
tokyodude 8y ago
I can't use history unless the browser searched by page content not just title
- rhizome 8y ago
  Exactly. Trying to find something you saw last week? Just sort "by date and site" and scroll down to its page title! This kind of thing is why I leave tabs up.

pard68 8y ago

Can't think of the browser but there is a hobby browser designed for modal --vim-- usage that displays history as a tree similar to a file structure rather than as a flat back and forward. I wish I could remember the name of it... I do recall it was listed on qutebrowser's github page under similar projects but I can't look right now.